Research and exploration into our deep oceans has resulted in a magnitude of benefits to society from medicinal compounds to improved navigation and mapping equipment.…
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Plush ROV
Since my posts about the Black Swan, I have somehow made it on the Odyssey email list. Once a month or so I get an…
View More Plush ROVNone of Your Beeswax
Via my weekly reading of the unopen access journal Science, there is an interesting story about beeswax, huge freakin’ chunks of it, that occasionally wash…
View More None of Your BeeswaxArrgh! Down to Davy Jones' Locker With You!
This is a notice that DSN has changed names to The Davy Jones News Report. Kidding…Because of the slowness of end-o-year, deep-sea related news, I…
View More Arrgh! Down to Davy Jones' Locker With You!TGIF: Another Atlantis
This week’s TGIF video comes from Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura who says he has identified the ruins of a sunken city off the coast of Japan. If you SCUBA dive, you’ll love it. If you don’t, you’ll wish you did. Could this be “another Atlantis”?
View More TGIF: Another AtlantisGlass Menagerie
No that’s not real and neither are the others in the post! Argonauta Argo, National Museum& Gallery, Cardiff Spending time at the Museum Comparative Zoology…
View More Glass MenagerieVolvo and the Black Swan
More on the continuing saga that surrounds the Black Swan reported at the New Straits Times. This is going to get pretty confusing so I…
View More Volvo and the Black SwanDeep-Sea Wine Tastes Better
So any wine is good, great wine is better, and great wine from the murky depths is the best.. Great wine aged on the ocean…
View More Deep-Sea Wine Tastes BetterWhat Porcelain, O This Porcelain?
Chinese police recovered 21 pieces of porcelain from a fishing boat and another 117 pieces from others. When asked where the porcelain came from, the…
View More What Porcelain, O This Porcelain?